Street Snack · Banana Fritters
Banana Fritters (Donat)
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Vendors call these "donat" — Bislama for doughnut — even though they're really just ripe banana batter dropped straight into hot oil.
Ripe bananas are mashed into a simple batter, sometimes with a little flour and sugar, then deep-fried into golden fritters and sold hot from baskets at Port Vila's market and roadside stands, a favourite grab-and-go snack.
Why it's made this way: With bananas abundant and cheap across Efate, frying them into a sweet snack turned surplus fruit into an easy source of income for market vendors, especially popular with schoolchildren after class.
Roughly what's in it
220kcal
3gprotein
34gcarbs
9gfat
Estimated per typical street-vendor portion — not lab-tested.
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